On the Winds

Climate Change, Weather, and Time

Don’t forget to listen to the most recent episode of my podcast, “What Is X?”, with Jeff Dolven talking about Poetry.

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A 1916 article in the Journal of Agricultural Research may help us to clear up one common misconception concerning a central metaphor in the work of Plato. The philosopher seems to enjoy those occasions (as in Theaetetus 210b) on which…